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Issuu Drives Publishing Industry Transformation With Aria Billing and Subscription Management

World's Leading Digital Publisher Deploys Leading SaaS Billing Solution to Monetize Apple iPad and Other Popular Mobile Platforms

MEDIA, PA - February 2, 2010 - Aria Systems, Inc. (http://www.AriaSystems.com), the leading provider of on demand billing and subscription management solutions, today announced that Issuu (http://www.issuu.com), the leading digital publishing platform, has deployed the Aria Billing and Subscription Management Platform. The Aria Platform has helped Issuu monetize its growing repository of more than one million documents, managing both free user accounts as well as paid subscribers.

Issuu is the leading publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of digital magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. In just a few seconds, users can create beautiful digital editions available in both web and mobile platforms simply by uploading their publications. Issuu is used by more than 9 million visitors per month and is trusted by leading organizations like Google, Viacom, Random House, Siemens, Cambridge University Press, The Telegraph, the United Nations, and thousands of other publishers. Time magazine recently named Issuu one of the Top 50 websites of 2009. Issuu provides a digital newsstand with the best e-reader on the market for popular mobile platforms like Android. Coming this spring, Issuu will provide an e-reader for the new Apple iPad currently under development.

“Issuu represents the future of publishing and has rapidly established itself as a global leader,” said Ed Sullivan, CEO of Aria Systems. “The Aria Platform powers a lot of next-generation businesses like Issuu that need fast deployment, scalability, and billing flexibility and we look forward to supporting Issuu’s continued growth.”

Taking advantage of the increasingly popular “freemium” model, Issuu needed a platform that could manage both free and premium subscribers. Issuu also needed to be able to support a large and diverse network of resellers that includes print shops, web agencies, media and publishing companies, freelancers and many others. It was also critical to Issuu to find a billing and subscription management partner that could deliver a system quickly.

Originally deployed in June 2009, the Issuu Pro Billing System, powered by the Aria Billing and Subscription Management Platform, integrates with Issuu’s internal financial systems to track receivables. Issuu considered many other SaaS billing solutions and selected Aria because of the Aria Platform’s maturity and reliability, rich application programming interface (API), administrative interface, and robust user self-service capabilities.

“Issuu serves a large, global audience and we needed a platform that could scale with our growth and support our various revenue models,” said Astrid Sandoval, CCO Sales & Marketing at Issuu. “The Aria Billing and Subscription Management Platform was the clear choice for rapid deployment and short-term results as well as the flexibility and reliability to deliver long-term success.”

About Aria Systems

Aria is the market leader in subscription and recurring billing solutions. Since 2003, Aria has managed over one million accounts in more than 195 countries. Aria’s Billing Platform is the billing industry’s most reliable, flexible and scalable on demand tool for accelerating revenue capture while significantly reducing operating costs. Additionally, having achieved end-to-end Level 1 PCI Compliance and SAS70 Certification, Aria Systems leads the market in security and compliance. Backed by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Venrock Associates and Dave Labuda, Founder and former CEO of Portal Software, Aria’s team of SaaS and billing experts are part of a company that billed over 2.5 million customers for $1 billion a year in transactions. Aria Systems is headquartered in Media, PA (metropolitan Philadelphia) and has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo, CA). Aria Systems has been ranked as the 5th fastest growing, privately held company in the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia 100. For more information about Aria Systems, visit http://www.AriaSystems.com or call 1-877-755-2370.

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